Party-based games
A party based system allows the player to create, customize and play with a party of adventurers at the beginning or during the game. The vast majority of old RPGs were party based: Ultima, Eye of the Beholder, The Magic Candle are just a few.
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Disciples of Steel
DOS19943.9/5
Don't Go Alone
DOS19894/5 Sterling Silver Software
Dragon Wars
DOS1990protected3.7/5 Interplay Productions
Dragonflight
DOS19913.6/5 Thalion
Dragons of Flame
DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
Drakkhen
DOS19893.8/5 Infogrames
Dungeon Master
DOS19924.1/5 FTL
Dungeon Master is a classic computer role-playing game (CRPG) developed by FTL Games and released in 1987. It's considered one of the pioneering titles in the dungeon crawler genre. In Dungeon Master, players navigate through a dungeon environment in a first-person perspective, controlling a party of up to four adventurers. The goal is to explore t...
Dungeon master 2: The legend of Skullkeep
DOS19954/5 FTL
Dungeons of Kairn
DOS19893.6/5
Exile II: Crystal Souls
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1996freeware3.9/5 Spiderweb Software
Exile III: Ruined World
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1997freeware3.8/5 Spiderweb Software
Exile: Escape from the Pit
Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995freeware4/5 Spiderweb Software
Exile: Escape from the Pit is a turn-based role-playing game (RPG) developed by Spiderweb Software. It is part of the Exile series, originally released in the mid-1990s. This game was later remade and re-released as Avernum: Escape from the Pit. The game is set in a massive underground world called Exile, where the Empire banishes criminals, p...
Eye of the Beholder
DOS1991protected4.3/5 Westwood Studios
Eye of the Beholder 2: The Legend of Darkmoon
DOS1991protecteddemo4.3/5 Westwood Studios
Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon is a first-person party-based role-playing game (RPG) developed by Westwood Associates and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). It was released in 1991 as a sequel to the successful "Eye of the Beholder" game.Set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, specifically the Forgotten Realms ...
Eye of the beholder 3: Assault on Myth Drannor
DOS1991protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Fairy Tale Adventure 2: Halls of the Dead
DOSWindows XP/98/9519973.8/5 The Dreamers Guild
Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures
DOSMac OS1993protected4.1/5 MicroMagic
After publishing a plethora of Gold Box titles, SSI decided to release a fantasy RPG based on the Forgotten Realms scenarios of Dungeons & Dragons where the player could create its own adventures. Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures (FRUA) is the ultimate Gold Box RPG and received praise from everyone who played it. If you loved Dark Knights ...
Fountain of Dreams
DOS19904.1/5 Electronic Arts
Gateway to the Savage Frontier
DOS1991protected4.1/5 Stormfront Studios
Hard Nova
DOS19903.7/5 Malibu Interactive
Hard Nova is a sci-fi role-playing game (RPG) developed by Malibu Interactive and published by Electronic Arts. Released in 1990, it is available on platforms such as the DOS, Amiga, Atari ST. Hard Nova is set in a distant future where players navigate through various star systems. The player takes on the role of a mercenary leader in charge of a s...
Heroes of Might and Magic
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4.2/5 New World Computing
Heroes of Might and Magic II
DOSWindows XP/98/951996protected4.2/5 New World Computing
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
Windows XP/98/951999protected4.2/5 New World Computing
Heroes of the Lance
DOS1989protected3.9/5 U.S. Gold
HeroQuest
DOSMac OS19913.9/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...
Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard
DOS19944/5 Psygnosis
Hired Guns
DOS19934.1/5 DMA Design
Hired Guns is an abandoned game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1993 for DOS and Amiga platforms. Hired Guns is a sci-fi RPG in which you control four mercenaries in four individual simultaneous first person sub-screens tasked with destroying all the bad guys from a single planet.
Icewind Dale
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2000protected4/5 Interplay Productions
Icewind Dale 2
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2002protected3.9/5 Black Isle Studios
Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom
DOS1994protecteddemo3.5/5 Silmarils
Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom is a role-playing video game developed and published by Silmarils, released in 1993. It is the sequel to Crystals of Arborea and the second installment in the Ishar series. Set in the fantasy world of Kendoria, the game follows the adventures of a group of adventurers as they journey across the land to defeat the evil so...